There are always exceptions when it comes to practicing piety. Even in China, there will be the occasional rude individual. The thing is, I haven’t seen or heard one yet, and I have visited China many times since 1999.
I did have a disrespectful, American born Asian student (once) during the thirty years I was a teacher.
I also had a small number of hard-working, respectful students from all ethnic groups—even those that were American born, but those types seem to be a dying breed in Western culture.
My best students were usually immigrants that came to the United States after living in their birth country for several years.
In addition, I had one American born student enter high school as a freshman after being home taught for eight years by his Caucasian, conservative Christian parents. He was a great person—polite and he worked hard.
He never said, “Hey, old man.”
Visit this site and you will quickly discover that someone does not agree with me about China. China, rude, dirty and annoying. Maybe this person has a Chinese face.
The Chinese can be very abrupt and rude with each other but usually treat foreign faces with respect.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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